South African wins two first prize World Press awards

[nfbs]

http://www.worldpressphoto.org

Brent Stirton from South Africa, a Getty Images photographer working for Kiev Independent, has won the first prize Contemporary Issues Singles with this picture of Maria, a drug addict and sex worker.

Brent Stirton of South Africa has won first prize Nature Stories for the "Rhino Wars" series. The picture, from a game reserve in Natal, shows a rhino which had had its horn cut off by poachers using a chainsaw.

 

[hilton]

Good grief!

 

[xrapidx]

1st pic - omf - who would be desperate enough to sleep with that...

2nd pic - the guys who did that need to be forced to have unsafe sex with pic 1

 

[nfbs]

Good grief!

Real world photography is not as glamorous as you think.

 

[sand_man]

1st pic - omf - who would be desperate enough to sleep with that...

2nd pic - the guys who did that need to be forced to have unsafe sex with pic 1

Classic

 

[nfbs]

1st pic - omf - who would be desperate enough to sleep with that...

2nd pic - the guys who did that need to be forced to have unsafe sex with pic 1

She claims not to have HIV.

http://www.worldpressphoto.org/photo/2012brentstirtonci-1?gallery=2634
Maria, a drug addict and sex worker, in between clients in a room she rents in Kryvyi Rig, Ukraine. Maria injects drugs on a daily basis and sees many men every week but claims she remains HIV negative. She says she need the money to support herself, her drug habit and her nine-year-old daughter.

 

[xrapidx]

She claims not to have HIV.

http://www.worldpressphoto.org/photo/2012brentstirtonci-1?gallery=2634
Maria, a drug addict and sex worker, in between clients in a room she rents in Kryvyi Rig, Ukraine. Maria injects drugs on a daily basis and sees many men every week but claims she remains HIV negative. She says she need the money to support herself, her drug habit and her nine-year-old daughter.

You going to take that chance?